SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT, lit. 'SS Dispositional Troops') was formed in 1934 as combat troops for the Nazi Party (NSDAP). On 17 August 1938 Adolf Hitler...

Office (SS-Hauptamt). The Allgemeine SS was officially established in the autumn of 1934 to distinguish its members from the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS Dispositional...

Germany during World War II. Initially formed from regiments of the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT), Das Reich initially served during the Battle of France in...

and SS-Verfügungstruppe components. A separate unit formed from training units in Bohemia and Moravia. Allgemeine-SS regional commands (for General SS commands...

as it was considered an armed SS formation, authority over the armed units was claimed by the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT), which had been first formed...

Leaders (SS-Oberabschnitt Führer); by 1936, the Reichsführer-SS was head of the three main SS branches: the Allgemeine SS, SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT; political...

thousands of SS and other uniforms. Once the war began, the black uniform was seldom worn. The combat units of the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT) and the...

the status of SS-Oberführer began to change with the rise of the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT), which would later become the Waffen-SS. Since Brigadeführer...

then became the SS-HA on January 30, 1935. The organization oversaw the Allgemeine-SS, concentration camps, the SS-Verfügungstruppe (Special-purpose...

Allgemeine SS, SS-Totenkopfverbände, and the Waffen-SS, which was founded in 1934 as the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT) and renamed in 1940. The Waffen-SS evolved...

amalgamated into the Waffen-SS together with the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT) and the combat units of the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) prior to Operation Barbarossa...

General der SS-VT (SS-Verfügungstruppe) upon the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Two SS officers would be demoted from the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer:...

had officers from the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT), of whom many had already seen action in Poland. The division was commanded by SS-Obergruppenführer Theodor...

All SS organizations – such as the Allegemeine-SS and the Reiter-SS, but also the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) and the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT) were...

approved the formation of the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT), a special service troop under Hitler's overall command. The SS-VT had to depend on the German...

of the SS-Verfügungstruppe (later renamed the Waffen-SS), the SS changed the rank of Mann to Schütze, although it still retained the original SS rank of...

developed its own military branch, the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT), which together with the LSSAH, evolved into the Waffen-SS. Nominally under the authority of...

the Battle of Belgium and France as a member of the SS-Verfügungstruppe (later renamed the Waffen-SS). For his service in these campaigns he was awarded...

of the SS-Verfügungstruppe and SS-Totenkopfverbände in recognition of special merit. It was also awarded to officers who graduated from the SS-Junker Schools...

introduction of the SS-men in the Allgemeine SS, SS-Totenkopfverbände units, and SS-Verfügungstruppe (later known as the Waffen-SS) every year. The SS dagger was...

SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT). Obertruppführer was abolished as an SS rank after the Night of the Long Knives (1934), when the rank was renamed as SS-Hauptscharführer...

1938 and was designated an SS-Untersturmführer, the most junior commissioned officer rank of the SS, in SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT), a mechanized infantry...

Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members. Other members included the SS-Totenkopfverbände...

Entrance into the SS-Verfügungstruppe as SS-Standartenführer 1939 Started World War II as SS-Oberführer 9 November 1940 promoted SS-Brigadeführer und...

Schepmann) Schutzstaffel (SS) (Heinrich Himmler, Karl Hanke) Allgemeine SS (General SS) SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT) Nazi Party troops...

Armed Forces, Poland Friedrich Engels Guard Regiment, East Germany SS-Verfügungstruppe, Nazi Germany "Ihre Grundausbildung im Wachbataillon beim BMVG"....

Offenberg, he joined the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT), the predecessor to the Waffen-SS, instead of the German Army as the SS-VT did not require Reichsarbeitsdienst...

(Detached from SS "Verfugungstruppe" Division) XXVI Corps - General Albert Wodrig 256th Infantry Division 254th Infantry Division SS "Verfügungstruppe" Division...

FÜR TREUE DIENSTE IN DER SS ("For Loyal Service in the SS"). The medal was awarded to SS members in the SS-Verfügungstruppe, SS-Totenkopfverbände who were...

organized by the SS in 1934 Waffen-SS – "Armed SS", created in August 1940 with the amalgamation of the Verfügungstruppe, the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler...